When you're a chair of an intel committee trying to get the bureaucratic infrastructure, the political leadership, your colleagues in elected office to focus on this. It was challenging, to say the least, When these companies were making huge investments and the Chinese were doing by the Communist Party, were asking for source code. were saying, if you want to be here, you have to have a Chinese Communist Party partner. You have to. And most of these businesses just blindly walked into this. (05:37–05:47)
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